Saturday, November 25, 2017

Why
does the vast majority of people in this world believe in a very limited
perception of GOD. This anthropocentric view evolved through ignorance and
fear. God has been assigned an unassailable objective domain.

"Dogmas
are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love
their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense
of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its
dogmas." ………….Eckhart Tolle

Today,
when we have solid knowledge on the vastness of the universe, with the latest
count of two trillion (2,000,000,000,000) galaxies, each with billions of
stars, what is so special about humans that God has the task of minding our
business. There could be billions or trillion of conscious beings in this
cosmic creation and yet through our egoistic mental attitude we think we are
special.

We
ignore our teaching when we say God is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. Christ
said "the kingdom of heaven is within you" and It is only through
this power of God, which arises from the level of cosmic consciousness, that
man is able to fathom the depth of the Universe and recently come to the
conclusion that our universe itself may be one of 10500 (10 followed by
500 zeros) universes, which is described as the Multiverse.

As a
young person, before I entered college, I had a strange experience which taught
me a big lesson in life. I was studying for four years wanting to take up a
life of dedication to serve as a priest in the Catholic tradition. But due to
my ill-health and a very intrusive questioning on some matters which were on
the imprimatur list, I was told that I had some other calling in life.

It
was at this juncture, feeling totally lost, I returned home to my very
disappointed parents. I was told that I should take the council of a Capuchin
priest, who was our distant relation,
and went to meet him at an ashram on the banks of river Caveri. I had not called him for any appointment as
there were no facility at home to make a telephone call. I landed up at the
ashram and found that this venerable priest had gone for the last rites of a
dying man and would return in about an hour. To while away the time and being a
warm afternoon, I decided to go and sit by the river bank. At the place I sat,
the river bed was about three feet below my dangling feet and the water’s edge
was six feet away. I was so depressed that I shut my eyes and was lost in a
flood of thoughts about what the future was in store for me. I must have spent
about thirty minutes in this confused contemplation. I was suddenly woken up by
the cool waters touching my feet. Then a sudden thought flashed across my mind.
“Go with the flow”. Feeling more positive I got up and went back to the ashram
and found that Fr. John of the Cross, the man I had come to meet has come back
and I called on him. I had earlier played chess with him and he taught me some
very good opening moves. When I told him the purpose of my visit. He said “Life
is very vast and there are many paths to take. You are good in chess so you are
a good logical thinker, so take engineering or science for your college studies
and do not stop learning. Flow like a river.” When he concluded, I felt a
shiver run down my spine. This synchronized Divine touch which was bestowed by
the river and then by this venerable priest launched me on this wonderful path.

To
be very sincere, I had never prayed for Divine guidance on choosing my path but
I am sure that this guidance came from a deep unfathomable source.

Why
I bring out this experience is that we are very limited when we get locked into
the prison of externally dictated guidance. This is like a swimmer getting
caught in a whirlpool or vortex. He or she has no freedom and cannot take the
many paths that the open waters offers. You get drowned in the misery of a
false sense of hope that somehow the answers would come from out of the waters,
a helping hand from heaven.

Christ
sum up the concept of the Heavenly kingdom as follows:

"If
your leaders say to you, 'Look, the (Father's) kingdom is in the sky,' then the
birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then
the fish will precede you. Rather, the kingdom is within you and it is outside
you. When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand
that you are children of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves,
then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty." ……….Gospel of Thomas, Saying 3

The
vastness of the multiverse proves to us the infinite domain of the Divine and
as individual perceivers of this vast domain, it is simply not possible to have
this perception unless it comes from our own internal unmitigated source.

The
allegorical story of Satyakama Jabala in chapter IV
of Chandogya Upanishadis a wonderful
narration to illustrate this deep listening and learning.

When
Satyakama Jabala, who was the son of a courtesan, went to learn the Vedas from
a Sage, the Sage, seeing his truthfulness, does not want to impart the ultimate
knowledge of the Vedas in the Gurukulam along with the other students but sends
Satyakama to tend four hundred cows, and come back when they multiply into a
thousand. The symbolic legend then presents conversation of Satyakama with nature,
with the bull, the birds and fire, to grasp the deep truth of the nature Brahman
(the metaphysical ultimate reality – here symbolically represented by the
thousand cows).

Let
us open up our minds and move away from given belief system and analyse
critically the truth hidden around us, especially in mythologies and ancient
sayings and by learning to listen deeply to mother nature.

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